Bhubaneswar, July 10 -- The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has alleged that despite the BJP government's claims of development under a "double-engine government", members of the primitive Juang tribal community in Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi's home district of Kendujhar continue to migrate in search of livelihood due to lack of local employment.
The allegation comes in the wake of the death of 15 Juang tribal workers from Telkoi, Banspal and Harichandanpur blocks of Kendujhar district in ammonia gas leak at a seafood processing unit in Tamil Nadu, where they had migrated for work.
A BJD delegation led by the party's Senior Vice-President and former minister Sanjay Das Burma visited the affected villages in Kendujhar to assess the situation a...